ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author deals with done outside Southern White English – Creoles, Black English, Middle and Early Modern English and other varieties of English – and his explanation for the existence of done in Non-standard Alabama English (NAE). It focuses on both recorded interviews and on anonymous observations which provided more than half of the examples. The creolist viewpoint on the issue is that Atlantic English Creole has a done which is the same as, or similar to, the form in Southern Non-standard White. That form is the predecessor of Southern non-standard White done because of the extensive language contact between Black creole-speaking slaves and Southern White small farmers over 100 years ago. Various Creoles have markers which function in much the same way as preverbal done, although they also have such markers in post-clausal position. Adverbial done is very much a class marker in Anniston and probably throughout the South.
